Mount Sinai Brooklyn expands cancer services, infusion center in $4 million project
The Mount Sinai Health System held a grand opening of the expansion of the Mount Sinai Brooklyn Ambulatory Infusion Center, a cancer treatment center that brings innovative cancer therapy and clinical trials to residents of southern Brooklyn.
The $4.1 million expansion doubles the center’s capacity to 15 infusion chairs, seven exam rooms and a mammography suite, offering medical oncology, chemotherapy, therapeutic infusion treatments, consultations, and blood transfusions. Experts in breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, gynecological cancer, multiple myeloma, and lung and thoracic cancer treat thousands of Brooklynites every year.
Mount Sinai Brooklyn also announced the addition of a high-tech magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner at the hospital, at a total cost of $2.8 million including installation. A grant from the New York City Council covered the cost of the scanner, $988,000. This new scanner uses artificial intelligence to provide the highest-quality images. The MRI has a larger tube that can accommodate patients of all sizes and is more comfortable for patients who are claustrophobic.
